Is there a way to get the gallery to work like it did on the Droid X? When I want to select a wallpaper or change an icon it shows me everything on my sdcard. I would like it to show me the list of folders so I can choose where to look. Can anyone out there help, I just received my DroidX2 today and this is driving me crazy when trying to set an icon or wallpaper as it list almost 5000 items.
Gallery 3D
Does gallery 3D let you find your images via folders when changing and icon and wallpaper? This new gallery is terrible, I do not want to scroll through 4739 images to find the one i want for an icon or wallpaper.
That's why I recommended it...
Install it and give it a try. With that many folders and pictures it will take a long time to load fully the first time. After that it should be good.
Thanks downloading it now and installing it. Here's hoping it works, this new gallery BLOWS LOL! If it will download that is another issue with this Droid X2 half the time downloads don't seem to work and I have to reset the phone to get them working again sometimes reset multiple times, and I have 4 bar 3G. I miss my Droid X.
Well I have restarted my phone 3 times have all bars 3G and the file still will not download. I never had these problems on my X.
I would try clearing data on your market app. You won't lose anything except the "Automatic Updating" for each app.
You rock. Gallery 3d finally downloaded, and it does what I want for wallpapers and icons. WOOHOO! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
How do you clear market app data?
Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - All Apps - Market - Clear Data
Thanks again. This will make the phone a little easier to bear I wanted the Bionic LOL.
No problem. The Blur gallery is cool if you only have pictures from your phones camera, but totally unacceptable otherwise.
I think the Bionic people are gonna feel stupid when the Prime and some other phones hit soon. It's not that much better than our phone, save the LTE. Especially if you flash a ROM, such as Eclipse. Runs very smooth and fast. And a replacement laucher like Launcher Pro is a must.
Good luck.
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A guide probably is a strong word for something this simple.
I did this because:
- I hate the way the stock gallery functions
- Watchdog constantly shows it using 44-52% of my resources.
My solution:
Replace Gallery3D with QuickPic in the Market
(no wonky permissions and the UI is much better in my opinion).
How to do it:
- So easy.
- Download QuickPic (LINK TO MARKET)
- Install, Open, like it? Continue.
- Go to your file manager (I like Root Explorer)
- go to system/apps
- Long press on Gallery3D
- Rename it
- Change the .apk to .bak
- Have shortcuts to the gallery? If so, replace them with Quickpic. I have a custom icon I prefer so I changed that too.
- Reboot.
What have I noticed?
- A better looking, and easier navigated Gallery.
- No Watchdog alerts for excessive CPU usage
- No loss in functionality (the opposite actually)
- Easily hide or exclude photos or folders in the gallery
I encourage you to try it.
I've always hated Gallery. This seemed like a good solution, so I decided to try it. It's certainly easy enough. I like that I can hide all those random images that appear from email caches and the like. Thanks!
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JJMT said:
I've always hated Gallery. This seemed like a good solution, so I decided to try it. It's certainly easy enough. I like that I can hide all those random images that appear from email caches and the like. Thanks!
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Ahh, really good point. I neglected you can very easily exclude or hide folders/images from the Gallery.
Edit, just added it.
Nice! Had never heard of Quickpic, but so far I prefer it to the native 3D Gallery.
Thanks for the heads up Callip.
Fast works great.
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I like it. Seems faster. Now I followed your steps, but after every reboot, my launcher pro freezes. It either takes a real long time to return to normal or I get a FC.
I find it easier to just freeze gallery in titanium backup. Just an alternate method.
bfranklin1986 said:
I find it easier to just freeze gallery in titanium backup. Just an alternate method.
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True. I'll add that as an alternate later, thanks man.
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I like it. Seems faster. Now I followed your steps, but after every reboot, my launcher pro freezes. It either takes a real long time to return to normal or I get a FC.
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This should have zilch to do with launcher pro, unless you have a shortcut to the gallery (not quickpic) maybe?
I use adw ex, no issues at all. I'll try and help, just don't see how this could be related.
I use launcher pro and have replaced the gallery app for a while with no fc...I recommend this app too haha.
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This should have zilch to do with launcher pro, unless you have a shortcut to the gallery (not quickpic) maybe?
I use adw ex, no issues at all. I'll try and help, just don't see how this could be related.
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I did have a shortcut to the gallery, but I trashed it. It doesn't matter, I just flashed to another rom. Does gallery3d really need to be disabled? I can't have both running?
You can do whatever you want man, I gave my suggestion. Sounds like I'm having much better results. If you have one, don't really need the other do ya?
First time I heard of quickpic, installing and so far loving it. thanks
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You can do whatever you want man, I gave my suggestion. Sounds like I'm having much better results. If you have one, don't really need the other do ya?
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I was thinking there would be interference issues or something if both apps were kept and that's why you wanted to remove gallery3d. Anyway thanks for this app recommendation. It loads a lot faster. I'll be following your beta swype steps real soon.
burntrat said:
I was thinking there would be interference issues or something if both apps were kept and that's why you wanted to remove gallery3d. Anyway thanks for this app recommendation. It loads a lot faster. I'll be following your beta swype steps real soon.
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Awesome man!
FYI, QuickPic got an update.
Android Central had just posted a write-up of QuickPic today.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-quickpic
se7en10 said:
Android Central had just posted a write-up of QuickPic today.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-quickpic
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Likely because of all my jibber-jabber on this over Twitter, ha.
I tried this with launcherPro and works great. It even let me choose my wallpaper from my pics like normal gallery. Also I can disable rescan media, since this lets me choose folders on command! This is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! I recommend this even as a solution if you have any problems with the normal gallery.
I use it to crop photos a lot.. Also nice because when you set a wallpaper it defaults the way most prefer, never understood why the stock gallery didn't zoom all the way out.
Can anyone recommend a good gallery app, paid or free. I installed gingerbread and although I like the new gallery it's just so slow. It never loads all the thumbnails so I can't tell what each picture is without pressing it.
I appreciate any suggestions.
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I use QuickPic -- its free on the market. Great gallery app, fast, smooth, loads up images in NO time.
I'm using Gallery+ right now cuz I hate 2.3.4's Gallery, gotta try that QuickPic one.
I use Quickpic. Love it.
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Gallery 3d
Thanks you guys. I will check those out out.
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I use to think it was the 2d gallery app, but I can't install it on gingerblur.. so I say quickpic
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+1 for QuickPic
will have to check it out; i HATE that the new gallery is all timecode based; i have all my pics (i am a published pro photographer and cameraman) organized meticulously and the new gallery wont let me just see everything in the old froyo file system. plus it is (WAY) slower and will not properly load thumbnails so 95% of my shots (which i keep in full res on the external SD card) show up without a thumbnail or title.
totally unacceptable to me. also i dont do social networking (AT ALL, i call/tango/skype if needed and talk or text but i prefer REAL human interaction) so tagging etc is useless for me.
+982343 for QuickPic
Super fast, and also renders images you use for WALLPAPER without any quality loss; if you set a wallpaper using the stock gallery vs quickpic you will see a stark difference.
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+982343 for QuickPic
Super fast, and also renders images you use for WALLPAPER without any quality loss; if you set a wallpaper using the stock gallery vs quickpic you will see a stark difference.
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yep, i noticed this straight away, with the wallpapers, and luckily quickpic does them perfectly, best gallery ive used.
Is the crap quality wallpaper thing a problem with the atrix gallery app or is it the same on other phones?
You guys are all correct, Quickpic is great. I need to start recommending it to people. Thanks again.
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Another vote for Quickpic here... Flashed 2.3.4 a few days ago and I have been more than disappointed with the new stock gallery app. Quickpic is definitely the answer. It organizes everything for you.
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Quickpic has my vote! So much easier to use!
Agreed quick pic is great but I also use b and b http://gallery.breadandbuttertool.com/ which has better folder options in certain circumstances imo. Those 2 though are all I need really!
quickpic!!
Quickpic is about the best.
But one feature that they ALL lack is an ability (option) not to recursively show subfolders.
ie, I have a folder called pets, and inside two more called cat, and dog. From the main gallery I only want to see pets and any images in pets. If I want to dig into cat or dog, I want to see those as subfolders. Just like folders in Windows.
If you like the idea of this, send an email to the author of quickpic. I requested this and he likes the idea. He said maybe if more people request it.
Okay, my personal mission aside.
Has anyone frozen (TiBu) the stock gallery app? I don't like it, and I'm tired of it littering my /sd with cache folders all over the place.
Yet another vote for quickpic.
Hey guys. I did a factory restore on my phone for reasons unrelated to the gallery, but when it was done, the factory gallery now works flawlessly. It loads up almost instantly and the thumbnails are perfect. I still think I like quickpic better, but I thought I would let you guys know what happened.
JohnnyDanger said:
Can anyone recommend a good gallery app, paid or free. I installed gingerbread and although I like the new gallery it's just so slow. It never loads all the thumbnails so I can't tell what each picture is without pressing it.
I appreciate any suggestions.
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I have tried a few gallery apps because i totally hate the stock gallery app as well. I love how smooth QuickPic is. They recently released a latest version of this app, making pinch to zoom look like eye candy.
Have a look at this youtube link and see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQdOwRCh__g
*Note: This is the old version of QuickPic though....the latest version is WAY smoother.
I just received my DroidX2 today. I installed Widgetlocker purchased version, and it installed fine. I used to use it on my DroidX. When i try to set a custom slider though I run into an issue that when I click on the drop down menu to select a custom slider the program force closes every time. I have uninstalled and re-installed the application and the same thing. Has anyone else had issues with Widgetlocker and DroidX2? HELP!
I have widget locker, it works for me, no problems. In order to get custom sliders, I hit menu button, add, add custom slider, and it gives you the option to download themes from xda... Hope that helps...
I have the custom themes downloaded already it is when i try to use the drop down to select the theme that it crashes every time. So far I am missing my Droid X. The gallery on this phone is crazy as well. It shows you every picture ont he device and even some documents when you try to pick a wallpaper from gallery instead of giving a list of folders like the Droid X did. I hate it.
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I have the custom themes downloaded already it is when i try to use the drop down to select the theme that it crashes every time. So far I am missing my Droid X. The gallery on this phone is crazy as well. It shows you every picture ont he device and even some documents when you try to pick a wallpaper from gallery instead of giving a list of folders like the Droid X did. I hate it.
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A lot if us took issue with the gallery among other things. That's why we rooted and installed eclipse. Eclipse can make u love this phone
yo! +1 to that shat
Mine use to do that what version do u have ?
Because of the constant Sense reloads I downloaded and am using the Nova launcher.
While I like it a lot, the one thing I miss is the HTC photo gallery. I'm not finding anything out there that matches it. What I am looking for is a full screen widget for one of the home screens that shows all of the photos from your device just as the HTC gallery/album does. What I have seen out there either is an app you have to activated before you get to the album or a widget where you have to go in and select which photos you want to show on the screen.
Any help?
I'm more curious why you were getting sense reloads. I'm not having any issue like that at all, and haven't seen it reported on the mikmik.
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get a stock rom and reflash
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I'm more curious why you were getting sense reloads. I'm not having any issue like that at all, and haven't seen it reported on the mikmik.
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Well, in general Sense has had reloading troubles across platforms for about a year or so depending on the device and the update where it seems to have started:
http://androidforums.com/evo-shift-support-troubleshooting/401932-htc-sense-crash-loading-issue.html
http://androidforums.com/htc-one-x/529430-sense-keeps-crashing.html
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-touch-pro-2/119170-loading-htc-sense.html
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/406840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1139314.html
http://www.htcforums.com/sensation/8907-htc-sense-ui-3-0-keeps-closing-reloading.html
HTC's "community" forum had a number of threads about it which seem to have been deleted:
http://community.htc.com/na/msgs/default.aspx?MessageID=9
Specifically with the EVO LTE:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26735055
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g-lte/175849-loading.html
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EN59fnMbYDEJ:androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g-lte/554851-sense-crashing-restarting-dont-reset-without-checking-google-wallet.html+htc+sense+%22loading%22+evo+lte&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
This is also a problem on the One X:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1601619.html
So, while perhaps not for all, it is an issue. It may depend on what app you are leaving to get back to the home page (seems to happen every time with Chrome) or how many apps "open" or how much memory being used, or who knows... And as you can see from the threads, there have been lots of suggestions and supposed "solutions" which don't seem to solve and sure didn't for me. Got so bad that started considering taking the LTE back before the 14 days was up. But Nova solved this problem. Not only do i like the launcher, there have been no loading/reloading"resets since I installed it.
And, in any case, I find I like the NOVA launcher and plan to stick with it at least until we have fully functional stable ROMs and I am fairly certain there wont be any major OTA updates (one hearsay post I saw suggested a recent update to the International One X helped the reload issue but can't find a confirmation).
Which brings me back to the ONE thing I did like about Sense that I cant seem to replicate, a photo gallery that accesses all of your pics and displays them all the time on one of the home screens, just like the HTC Gallery does.
Anybody????
So, is this impossible to do?
I would like to know if this is at all possible.
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Because of the constant Sense reloads I downloaded and am using the Nova launcher.
While I like it a lot, the one thing I miss is the HTC photo gallery. I'm not finding anything out there that matches it. What I am looking for is a full screen widget for one of the home screens that shows all of the photos from your device just as the HTC gallery/album does. What I have seen out there either is an app you have to activated before you get to the album or a widget where you have to go in and select which photos you want to show on the screen.
Any help?
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Quickpic works great https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
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I just installed quickpic and it doesn't have a widget that I can find.
But, I live what it does with the burst mode shots, gives them their own folder and unpacks them. Nice. I hadn't tried quickpic on this device yet.
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So far I love the phone. This is the only phone I've had in a long time where I haven't wanted to load a custom rom the day I got it. There's just one thing I don't know if there's an option for, and something else I'd like to change that I hope it easy being rooted.
1. Is there a way to make the vibrate patterns apply to text messages? So far they only seem to apply to incoming calls.
2. The little dots on the bottom that show what page I'm on. Can I get rid of those or move them to the top of the screen?
ok, there's a 3rd I guess. The green phone icon, is there an EASY way to change that? Not thrilled about a couple others either like the contacts one. Don't know if there's a simple way to go in and swap out the image file for a different one or not. On my Galaxy tablet I was able to go in and create custom icons on the computer and use a program on the tab to select what program I wanted it to open, but that was a long time ago and I forgot how to do it, or what programs I used. If that's what it comes down too though, guess that's what I'll have to do. Just wanted to know if there was an easier way. I don't mind the icons themselves, just the colors. Not a fan of green or orange. Blue would be nice.
Thanks in advance for any help on these. Besides this stuff, absolutely LOVE the phone...
hope this helps...
1. I don't see any place in the touchwiz messaging app's settings to customize the vibrate pattern for texts... some possible solutions would be a custom ROM with the stock google messaging app rather than the touchwiz app, or somewhat less extreme would be to install a 3rd party texting client from the play store and see if that setting is present in that app.
2. I'm not sure if the touchwiz launcher allows you to hide or remove those little indicator dots, but you can open up a million options for homescreen launcher settings by installing a 3rd party launcher from the play store like Nova Launcher or Apex Launcher. Currently I'm using Apex and it is great (still rocking the stock experience until CM9 gets a stable release).
3. As for changing icons like the phone, calendar, calculator, etc. This is another thing that can be customized using a launcher like Apex.
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So far I love the phone. This is the only phone I've had in a long time where I haven't wanted to load a custom rom the day I got it. There's just one thing I don't know if there's an option for, and something else I'd like to change that I hope it easy being rooted.
1. Is there a way to make the vibrate patterns apply to text messages? So far they only seem to apply to incoming calls.
2. The little dots on the bottom that show what page I'm on. Can I get rid of those or move them to the top of the screen?
ok, there's a 3rd I guess. The green phone icon, is there an EASY way to change that? Not thrilled about a couple others either like the contacts one. Don't know if there's a simple way to go in and swap out the image file for a different one or not. On my Galaxy tablet I was able to go in and create custom icons on the computer and use a program on the tab to select what program I wanted it to open, but that was a long time ago and I forgot how to do it, or what programs I used. If that's what it comes down too though, guess that's what I'll have to do. Just wanted to know if there was an easier way. I don't mind the icons themselves, just the colors. Not a fan of green or orange. Blue would be nice.
Thanks in advance for any help on these. Besides this stuff, absolutely LOVE the phone...
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1. Have heard others complain of this issue, so I don't believe that there a way to do it. Don't use that feature myself so...
2. Again, I'm not sure, but I think you're stuck with them. You could use a launcher that allows more customization. I like apex.
3. Download an app called "icon changer" and a icon pack or theme with the icons you would like to use. You can then open the application and select the app you want to change the icon of and pick a new icon. It will create a shortcut of the app with the custom icon on your home screen. Great for changing icons on your home screen if you want to remain using TW. If you decide to use an alternate launcher like apex this feature is already integrated and you have the ability to switch the icons within the app drawer as well.
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Thanks for the quick replies. Trying to stay away from a custom rom on this phone. There's just nothing I'm really unhappy with that much. There's always something that goes wrong when I load one. Not saying there's ANYTHING wrong with the roms themselves, there's just not that much on this phone I'm not happy with, unlike phones I've had in the past. I'm coming from a Desire.
Thanks for the Icon Changer app also. Changing them on my tablet was a pain in the butt, this was nice and simple. Any way you know the dimensions of the icons though so I can create some of my own?